About
Berit Mortensen has been a faculty employee at OsloMet’s Master program in Midwifery since 2019. She finalized her PhD in 2020 at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, with the dissertation Making Midwifery Matter, Introduction of a Midwife-led Continuity Model of Care in occupied Palestine, based on three quantitative studies. The project was financed by the Research Council of Norway. Mortensen was educated as a midwife in Oslo in 1992 and has since worked clinically in Oslo, Helgeland and Palestine with both antenatal-, labor- and postnatal care. She has worked with international solidarity and health projects in Palestine and Lebanon since 1987, both as a nurse, midwife and project manager for the organization Norwegian Aid Committee (NORWAC). In collaboration with Palestinian midwives, she developed and implemented a locally adapted midwife-led continuity model of care serving rural women in the Israeli-occupied West Bank between 20026 and 2017. She completed her master's degree in practical knowledge at Nord University in Bodø in 2011. The title of her master's thesis was: To be Veiled or not to be, what unites is the question? Experiences from a continuity of midwifery care model in occupied Palestine and Norway, utilizing a qualitative phenomenological-hermeneutic approach.
Research groups
Research projects
Ongoing research projects
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Exploring Quality of Maternal and Newborn Care in Palestine (EqualMatPal)
This PhD project will utilize mixed methods to explore the quality of care provided to new mothers and their newborn children in Palestine
Publications and research
Scientific publications
Myrhaug, Hilde Tinderholt
;
Mortensen, Berit
; Munabi-Babigumira, Susan Kyomuhendo; Kaasen, Anne;
Pay, Aase Serine Devold
; Naab, Florence; McFadden, Alison;
Eri, Tine Schauer
;
Lafontan, Sara Rivenes
(2025).
Midwives’ experiences and perceptions of midwife-led continuity of care models in low-and middle-income countries: A qualitative evidence synthesis.
Midwifery.
Vol. 149.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.midw.2025.104565
Symon, Andrew;
Mortensen, Berit
;
Pripp, Are Hugo
; Chhugani, Manju; Adjorlolo, Samuel; Badzi, Caroline; Kharb, Renu; Prussing, Elysse; McFadden, Alison; Gray, Nicola M.; Cummins, Allison
(2024).
Validating the Quality Maternal and Newborn Care Framework Index: A Global Tool for Quality-of-Care Evaluations.
Birth.
https://doi.org/https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/do
Hassan, Sahar; Masri, Hadeel; Sawalha, Israa';
Mortensen, Berit
(2024).
Perceived barriers and opportunities of providing quality family planning services among Palestinian midwives, physicians and nurses in the West Bank: a qualitative study.
BMC Health Services Research.
Vol. 24.
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-024-11216-4
Bekkhus, Mona; Oftedal, Aurora; Haugen, Guttorm Nils;
Mortensen, Berit
; Kaasen, Anne
(2024).
Acute symptoms of depression and traumatic stress in men and women who terminate pregnancy after detection of fetal anomaly: A prospective observational study.
BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology.
https://doi.org/10.1111/1471-0528.17884
Henriksen, Lena
;
Kisa, Sezer
;
Lukasse, Mirjam
;
Flaathen, Eva Marie
;
Mortensen, Berit
;
Karlsen, Elisabeth
; Garnweidner-Holme, Lisa
(2021).
Cultural Sensitivity in Interventions Aiming to Reduce or Prevent Intimate Partner Violence During Pregnancy: A Scoping Review.
Trauma, Violence, & Abuse.
https://doi.org/10.1177/15248380211021788
Mortensen, Berit
; Diep, Lien My;
Lukasse, Mirjam
; Lieng, Marit; Dwekat, Ibtesam; Elias, Dalia; Fosse, Erik
(2019).
Women's satisfaction with midwife-led continuity of care: An observational study in Palestine.
BMJ Open.
Vol. 9.
https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2019-030324
Mortensen, Berit
; Lieng, Marit; Diep, Lien My;
Lukasse, Mirjam
; Atieh, Kefaya; Fosse, Erik
(2019).
Improving Maternal and Neonatal Health by a Midwife-led Continuity Model of Care ? An Observational Study in One Governmental Hospital in Palestine.
EClinicalMedicine.
Vol. 10.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eclinm.2019.04.003
